Losing is no longer a novelty for the United States Men's Basketball program. The organization's chiefs memorized the stench of defeat years ago and hired Jerry Colangelo and Mike Krzyzewski to provide the necessary air freshener.
The new regime's impact is indisputable. Team USA has not lost a game since the 2006 World Championship semifinal. Greece won that affair, 101-95, to steal away the Gold Medal. Try getting those results with Glade, Febreze, or Lysol.
The squad's 2002 and 2004 showings were ones fit for the Dumpster, not the history books. The Americans finished in sixth place in an embarrassing World Championship effort on U.S. soil. The worst indignity of all, a bronze medal, followed in Athens.
Krzyzewski and Colangelo drowned the arrogance and mortiferous practices that spawned those international disasterpieces in an Olympic-size swimming pool and have since installed a winning culture. No one can deny it: This iteration of USA basketball wins, and it wins a lot. Can anyone argue against a tandem that has overseen just one defeat in four years?
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